List of antonyms from "lay power" to antonyms from "layabout"


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Definition of the day : « lay waste »

  • As in ruination : noun ruin
  • As in pillage : verb plunder, destroy
  • As in plunder : verb ravage, steal
  • As in ransack : verb turn inside out in search; ravage
  • As in ravage : verb destroy, ransack
  • As in ruin : verb devastate, destroy
  • As in sack : verb raid, plunder
  • As in smash : verb defeat, destroy
  • As in waste : verb ruin, destroy
  • As in wreak havoc : verb cause destruction
  • As in harrow : verb sack
  • As in pauperize : verb ruin
  • As in spoliate : verb sack
  • As in consume : verb destroy
  • As in desolate : verb ravage, destroy
  • As in destroy : verb demolish, devastate
  • As in devastate : verb demolish, destroy
  • As in harry : verb pester, annoy
Example sentences :
  • There were no forests to lay waste here, nor marshes to be drained.
  • Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter
  • You may lay waste its fertile valleys and verdant hill-sides.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • There are a thousand of them, and they can lay waste this island, if they get going.
  • Extract from : « No Defense, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
  • I will lay waste this duchy of hers, though in the end the emperor crush me.
  • Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath
  • The Fabians roamed about in order to lay waste the enemys territory.
  • Extract from : « Selections from Viri Romae » by Charles Franois L'Homond
  • Could you lay waste this land, which gave you birth and nurtured you?
  • Extract from : « The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 » by Titus Livius
  • The land that Hrapp had owned all lay waste, as has been told before.
  • Extract from : « Laxdla Saga » by Anonymous
  • I'll do yet to these knights as I did before; I'll lay waste their lands, or ever I turn again.
  • Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown
  • The Master said, To tell unto the dust all that we hear upon the way is to lay waste the mind.
  • Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius
  • Passing by Tegea, Agis entered the district of Mantinea, and having pitched his camp began to lay waste the country.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell